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No. That's not what I am saying.

Both us and the Romans are and were building lots of different things for lots of different purposes with lots of different properties and trade-offs.

Some of the earliest re-inforced concrete was used to make better flowerpots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_concrete#History

You can bet your hat that this was a very different type of (re-inforced) concrete than what we are using to build houses these days. We use yet other kinds of concrete for tunnels or underwater. Just like the Romans used different building materials.




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